About Us
Your Community & Senior Support Center
Autumn Services - Society for Senior Support became a non-profit society in 2009. Through our determined efforts and collaborative approach, we secured funders to support our dream of opening a Senior Drop-in Centre in 2013. With a need for expansion five years later, we moved into our present space at 111 Chowsunket Street. We built a commercial kitchen, added storage space, several offices, a Zoom room, and left a large open space for community to gather.
Everyone is welcome!
Meet Our Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Administration
Executive Director
Responsible to the board of directors and able to manage all day-to-day
operations including grant writing, amassing data and filling reports, goal setting, succession planning, responsible for staff management, planning and participating in fund raising and special events. Must fully participate in all obligations from sweeping the floor to taking zoom calls to meeting one-on-one with families for discussions on aging to attending provincial
conferences and advocating for comprehensive wraparound services that better suit rural lifestyles.
Finance Department
Employees are required to have an understanding of the Sage Bookkeeping Program and are capable of keeping track of all financial records including data entry, bank deposits, reporting to CRA, payroll, preparing financial statements for board
meetings and preparing year-end financials.
Staff
All Employees must undergo a criminal record check.
Kitchen Staff
Better at Home Program/Therapeutic Activation Program/Elder Meal Program/Summer Market Program/ Soup & Bun Program/Miscellaneous Special Event Catering.
Under guidance of the Kitchen Manager, staff are required to hold a Food Safe Certificate and have knowledge around managing budgets, ordering inventory, planning meals and preparing meals.
Better at Home Coordinator
Better at Home Program – the program coordinator is responsible for managing the North Central BC Better at Home Program which assists seniors with non-medical day to day tasks that will enable them to maintain their independence and age with confidence in their own community.
Technology Assistance
Navigation & Peer Support Program (Connect) – employees are responsible for assisting clients with accessing on-line documents, printing from a flash drive, designing and printing posters, business cards, resumes, or offering help with setting up cell phones, assisting with computer programs, or making online enquiries.
Therapeutic Activation Program
TAPS – employees with the program are responsible for assisting vulnerable older adults to be connected through social opportunities and other programs that increase their sense of well being. The purpose of the TAPS program is to collect data that will assist health authorities to determine if and how vulnerability and isolation effect the overall health of aging adults.
Food Share Coordinator
Provincial Gaming and United Way of Northern BC – employee is responsible for shopping, doing client intakes, recording inventory, storage, making food hampers and personalizing each bag according to client likes and dislikes.
Drivers
Laurie Mason, Darel Tetz, Karen Scott, Janet Coburn, Alex Hobart, Norman Charlie
Get Up and Go
Better at Home Program and/or Therapeutic Activation Program – volunteer drivers are required to have a clean driving abstract and have access to either the Autumn Services van or their own trustworthy vehicle.
Drivers are required to drive clients to pre scheduled medical appointments using the Autumn Services van whenever possible, using their own personal vehicle only if the van is already booked. Drivers also deliver Soup & bun twice a week providing Health Checks as well as delivering senior meals and picking up grocery orders as required.
Volunteers
All volunteers must undergo a criminal record check
Volunteers also assist with setting up and calling Bingo, and helping with miscellaneous tasks as called on.
Mike Walsh
Bingo Caller
Tyrell
Bingo Caller
Board of Directors
(2023 - 2024)
The Board of Directors meet every Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm at Autumn Services Centre. The board members are instrumental in planning and implementation of programsustainability and volunteering at events.
Lorraine Turnbull
Chair
Koby Vallis
Director
LeEtta LaFontaine
Director
Debbie Devauld
Treasurer
Tom Clement
Secratary